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Spring 2019  |  ENGL 3061 Section 001: Literature and Music (54782)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Description:
Shakespeare/Verdi: The single-most glorious intersection of Literature and Music is opera, of course. It follows, then, that great opera based on great literature gives us the best of both worlds, and the most brilliant example of literature-based opera would have to be Verdi's adaptations of 3 of Shakespeare's plays. This course will explore the Literature/Music nexus through a detailed look at 3 of William Shakespeare's plays - MACBETH, OTHELLO, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR - along with the 3 operas Giuseppe Verdi based on those works - MACBETH, OTELLO, and FALSTAFF. We'll take a few classes to get to know Shakespeare and Verdi, then we'll spend the rest of the semester studying each play and each libretto, reading criticism and other source information concerning each work, and watching play performance and opera production. We'll also explore the decisions involved in the musical adaptation of a literary text. Students should leave the class with a working knowledge of these two men of the theatre, a thorough knowledge of each play and each opera, insight to how criticism makes meaning of literature and music, and insight into both artistic production and artistic adaptation.
*This course meets the Literature Core LE requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54782/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

Spring 2019  |  ENGL 3061 Section 002: Literature and Music (66307)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In this course, we will explore the connections and parallels between music and literature, assessing both form and content and drawing upon various genres from both arts. We will examine some of the ways that musical and literary texts can change, subvert, or augment each other by applying critical and literary theories to intertextual readings. Among the subjects we may discuss are how authors use music in their work, both structurally and topically; how musicians use literature, both as lyric and as subject matter; and how members of each group engage the artistic assumptions of the other. Students will gain a greater appreciation of the varied forms of creative expression and an increased understanding of how they influence each other through close reading and listening, discussions, reflective writing, and presentations.
Class Notes:
Chops, loops, samples, turntablism, drops, 808s - for decades, modes of Hip Hop production have been in sonic conversation with compositions from a wide-range of musical genres. Yet, what about textual composition? By which I mean, besides bars? In this class, we'll consider what Hip Hop music has to tell us about techniques for reading and writing, creating interventions into essays and research. Through close listening and reading, we'll explore aspects of Hip Hop production and poetics in order to better understand the aesthetic concepts we encounter. Essays, poetry, plays, and a graphic novel, will help us examine how different authors have engaged Hip Hop compositional methods through their work. We'll also experiment through rigorous yet ludic adventures in writing, where we'll break our essays down to the formula of "Claim/Evidence/Analysis" and rebuild them using found Hip Hop methodologies.
Class Description:
In celebration of Bob Dylan's being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the University of Minnesota English Department will offer a special section of ENGL 3061 (Literature and Music) focused on "The Literary Bob Dylan."

The course will explore the music of Bob Dylan, one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally influential musicians of all time. Dylan, who was born Bob Zimmerman in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing, took his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and has regularly named poets as some of his greatest influences, alongside other folk musicians. This course will examine Dylan's literary influences and his influence on literature, as well as question the dividing line between music and poetry.

Students will pay special attention to Dylan's wide variety of formal strategies (the epigram, the couplet, balladry, surrealism, etc.) and their relation to poetic history in hopes of discovering new contexts for a musician who is continually reinventing himself. At the same time, they will consider the tensions these forms and their histories created in Dylan's musical career (manifest, for example, in the "going electric" controversy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival). Students will also situate Dylan's music, particularly his early work, in its historical and political context in order to consider, for example, strategies for cultivating empathy/sympathy through language and poetic form in the context of the Civil Rights movement ("Only a Pawn in Their Game," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll") and to question the possibilities for a poetics of protest in the context of the Vietnam War ("A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Masters of War").

Texts will likely include: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader, Chronicles (Dylan's memoirs), Dylan's music and liner notes, as well as Woody Guthrie's autobiography (Bound for Glory). We will also read selections from Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, Hunter S. Thompson, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and William Gay, among others.

In order to allow students to trace Dylan's living legacy and critically examine the poetics of current folk music, the class will attend a local concert (schedule and cost permitting).

This course meets the Literature Core Liberal Education requirement.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66307/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 March 2017

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